Books published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

G.F. Dutton (1924-2010) wrote austerely passionate poems which search and illuminate the world about us. They are as much explorations as his notable scientific work: both draw on one continuous spectrum of experience.

Presents a comprehensive selection of poetry, including work for explaining magnetism and kissing a bone.

Esther Morgan's poems travel great distances across huge landscapes, both real and metaphorical: the big skies and endless horizons of the English Fens, the dust and rock of the Moon, the seas and deserts of dreams.

Bartlett's powerfully evocative poems are remarkable for their painfully truthful insights into people's lives. In her new collection, drawing on poems written in her 70s, she recalls past loves and times with openness and honesty.

This collection has been chosen by UNESCO for their Collection of Representative Works. Salah Stetie has published forty books and was awarded Le Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 1995. In his exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, Western culture merges with Oriental and Arabic traditions. His writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension, which never ceases to root itself in earthy, sensuous experience. His poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is "hanging on the other side of being" -- "the great soft lion's track in the invisible" -- which still captures the swarming particularities of our daily presence in the world.

Russian's political revolution of 1990 set off a cultural earthquake of unprecedented impact. This anthology shows how a new generation of Russian poets responded to that evolving cultural shift and to the difficult freedoms of a new era, producing a new literature of great energy and diversity. Russian-English bilingual edition.

Reading Peter Reading is the first comprehensive study in English of Peter Reading's oeuvre, illuminating its thematic and formal concerns, paradoxes and development as well as underlining its major status in contemporary literature. Reading Peter Reading covers Peter Reading's collections from Water and Waste (1970) to Marfan (2000).

Edna Longley's latest collection of essays focusses on poetry itself, and in particular how poets are read at different times and in different contexts. Her essays cover poets such as Edward Thomas, MacNeice, Larkin, Auden, Durcan, Paulin, Mahon and Michael Longley.

No Hiding Place is the début collection from a highly original young Scottish poet whose influences range from detective stories and fairy-tales - with their battles between good and evil - to the films of Marilyn Monroe and Kay Kendall. Tracey Herd's title-poem takes the style of a 1950s film noir, with echoes of Raymond Chandler, pointing up the harsh sense pervading many of her poems that there is no hiding place from death, God and the Day of Judgement. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Katrina Porteous has lived in the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years, formerly home to a centuries-old fishing community. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the place and its people. Her first collection also includes some of her own drawings featuring both fishing and industry in decline as well the wildlife of North-East England.All her poems are strongly physical in character, written to be read aloud. They take as their starting-point the tensions between time and eternity, change and stillness. In language which is both passionate and controlled, they express the endless struggle to discover new forms of order.The fishing poems develop these themes within a microcosm of the wider world. In a dialogue between her own voice and the fishermen's dialect, Katrina Porteous traces the identity of the community in its common memory and working practices, finding with the passing of the old ways of life a loss of spiritual direction. The poems suggest the way forward is neither to cling to the past nor to abandon it, but to change and remember.

Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. Lorca has a searing realization of the power of desire. Brendan Kennelly rises to the challenge of how to convey this in an English translation, in language at once soaring and accurate, wild and precise. His version of Blood Wedding reveals the mysterious, intricate, passionate, and truly astonishing nature of Lorca's masterpiece.

This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in recent French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an influential strand in recent French literature. It is an ontological poetry concerned with the very being of things and with the nature of poetic language. French-English bilingual edition.

The Objectivists were a group of left-wing, mainly Jewish American poets who formed a brief alliance in the 1930s when they felt poetry needed a new identity. The poets featured in this anthology are the core poets Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff and Carl Rakosi along with Lorine Niedecker, Kenneth Rexroth and Muriel Rukeyser.

William Martin's poetry is inspired by the social, cultural, and religious life of Northumbria, past and present, from myth, from Anglo-Saxon literature and art, children's games, ballads and street songs, and the history and struggles of pit communities, with a wider concern for a society losing its common ground, its rituals and rites of passage.

This collection encompasses a striking variety of subjects. Sail reflects on detail in the natural world, both in micro- and macrocosms, looking, for example, at flowers, birds, the sea, and the earth seen from space; he explores the intricacies and balances of love and family relationships; he finds new resonances in the paintings of David Bomberg, Howard Hodgkin, and Paul Klee, and affinities in his translations of Mallarme, Rilke, and Trakl. His imaginative scope extends into a sequence of prose poems responding powerfully to Gabriel Faur's nine Preludes for piano.

First collection by one of Ireland's most distinctive new lyrical voices, winner of the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection Prize. Her poems are rooted in rural life but universal in their appeal. The River was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2016.

First book-length collection by Pakistan-born, London-based poet featured in Bloodaxe's Ten: new poets from Spread the Word anthology in 2010.

J.H. Prynne is Britain's leading late Modernist poet. When his Poems was first published in 1999, it was acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry. It was superseded by the 2005 expanded second edition including four later collections only previously available in limited editions, and that in turn by the 2015 third edition including another six.

Third collection by leading poet previously published by Anvil Press. Her debut At Home in the Dark (2001) won Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Salvation Jane (2008) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.

Two sequences of of poems on forgiveness combined in a collection which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Hill is one of Britain's leading poets and previously won the Whitbread Poetry Award.